Talking heads : language, metalanguage, and the semiotics of subjectivity

"Talking Heads synthesizes the views and works of a breathtaking range of the most influential modern theorists of the humanities and social sciences, including Austin, Searle, Derrida, Jakobson, Bakhtin, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Frege, Kripke, Donnellan, Putnam, Saussure, and Whorf. After illuminating these many strands of thought, Lee moves beyond disciplinary biases and re-embeds within the context of the public sphere the questions of subjectivity and language raised by these theorists. In his examination of how subjectivity relates not just to grammatical patterns but also to the specific social institutions in which these patterns develop and are sustained, Lee discusses such topics as the concept of public opinion and the emergence of Western nation-states."--Jacket.Ler mais...

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Looks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism and explores their varied accounts of subjectivity, reference, and narrationLer mais...

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"Talking Heads will make a major contribution to several lines of concern presently animating new thinking and research across a wide spectrum of the human and social sciences.-Michael Holquist, Yale University "Lee's extraordinary mastery of so many different domains enables him to cross back and forth over the usual borders and boundaries, and to demonstrate to us that each domain of specialized knowledge has important things to say about the issues he focuses on, things which cannot be ignored if we hope to achieve a full understanding of them."-Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University "This is a brilliant book. It traverses the no-man's land between contemporary disciplines, serving to create an intellectual commerce between usually isolated areas, principally philosophy, linguistic anthropology, and literary criticism, but also psychology, political science, sociology, and history."-Greg Urban, University of PennsylvaniaLer mais...

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